20.500.12556/DiRROS-31840 Work praises the master: the concept of work in Slovenia Darbas meistrą giria: darbo samprata trumpuosiuose slovėnų folkloro žanruose Short folklore forms, like proverbs and riddles with integrated metaphors and stereotypes, capture diachronic reflections of the surroundings, including the economic situation and societal values. The economy and economic activity as a dominant part of everyday life is a very important factor in family life. In contemporary ethnology, “everyday” is used to mean the “culture of the many”, the banal, widespread phenomena of culture. More broadly, it represents both the universal and the most one of a kind, the social and the personal spheres of life. Everyday life most faithfully reflects how life and the world are understood. This article focuses on the concept of work in everyday life and its representation in Slovenian short folklore forms, specifically proverbs and riddles, which are analysed across nine thematic groups. This ethnolinguistic study uses the proverb archive at the ZRC SAZU Institute of Slovenian Ethnology. short folklore form proverb riddle work everyday Slovenian folklore ethnolinguistics paremiology culture folkloristics etnolingvistika paremiologija kultura folkloristika delo true false true Angleški jezik Litvanski jezik Copyright © Saša Babič, 2026. Neznano 2026-08-09 16:06:28 2026-08-09 16:06:28 2026-08-10 03:43:46 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 Raziskovalni podatki, na katerih temelji objava, so na voljo na http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1853 str. 156-169 71 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 398.91:81 1392-2831 10.51554/TD.26.71.09 286476035 https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/td/en/article/view/47827/42874 0 b6b4b871-93fb-11f1-af5a-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=49471 9.pdf 9.pdf 1 882EA83CA9BC67515306C495BC71A324 3feed65235ab2c43455fd1cb4a8d8f9b2a39673437d90cf007975ae89dec984f c1df34d9-93fb-11f1-af5a-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=49472 Znanstvenoraziskovalni center Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti 0 0 0